I arrived home today to be greeted by packages.\u00a0 These are always fun moments and in particular, given what I am awaiting, this got pretty exciting.\u00a0 Arrived today was my SSB (the ICOM M802 + AT140 auto tuner) and my sextant.\u00a0 The radio gear was unpacked and looked at.\u00a0 Actual contact must await the weekend.\u00a0 I know I don’t have all the bits yet but now I have some of the gear I can cast my mind to how \/ where I’m going to set it up.\u00a0 I haven’t yet thought about an antenna.\u00a0 This will need some research \/ preparation.\u00a0 Now, perhaps, is the time to draw on my recently acquired HAM knowledge.\u00a0 The sextant was more readily playable.\u00a0 The one I have ordered is the Astra IIIb.\u00a0 Midrange pricewise which is usually where I find price\/performance to work out the best.\u00a0 I only had to screw in the eyepiece.\u00a0 I was able to determine the index error as measured using the top of my laptop as an artificial horizon.\u00a0 This will give me an obvious error in my error assessment due to near distance parallax.\u00a0 (Am I showing off cos I read a little theory recently?)\u00a0 I then measured the altitude of a light relative to my laptop then got bored.\u00a0 Now I need to find some more realistic practice scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived home today to be greeted by packages. These are always fun moments and in particular, given what I am awaiting, this got pretty exciting. Arrived today was my SSB (the ICOM M802 + AT140 auto tuner) and my sextant. The radio gear was unpacked and looked at. Actual contact must await the weekend. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}